![]() What brought this forgotten song back to the stage? Apparently, Bruce had been listening to the brand new Sirius satellite radio station, E Street Radio, at the exact moment the station was playing the song off of an old bootleg. If you looked around the room during the performance, you’d have seen jaws drop if not for Bruce’s playing, you could have heard pins drop. But for now, it feels like honoring the spirit of the album to preserve the past alongside the present. I’ll let my original essay stand for now perhaps someday I’ll revise it to reflect the tremendous modern version. As I mused in my Twitter conversation with Anthony above, Bruce seems to pair and place “ If I Was The Priest” and “Song for Orphans” deliberately, as a look back (on multiple levels) to the beginning of his journey from his current location far, far up the road. And while the song is still as lyrically dense as ever, the subtext that I alluded to in the original essay below (about the temptations facing an aspiring rock star) seem much less sub- and much more primary. ![]() As of a few minutes ago, we finally have a fully realized official E Street Band recording of “Song for Orphans” via Bruce’s just-released Letter to You album. They're good album-mates, these two songs. I think "Song to Orphans" is less about the call and more about the dangers, distractions, temptations, and seductions that lie in one's path when answering it.
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